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For more than 100 years the Society of Professional Journalists has been dedicated to encouraging a climate in which journalism can be practiced more freely and fully, stimulating high standards and ethical behavior in the practice of journalism and perpetuating a free press.

About the Foundation

Since its founding in 1961, the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation has promoted excellence and ethics in journalism. The SDX Foundation is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization that supports the educational programs of the Society of Professional Journalists and serves the professional needs of journalists and students pursuing careers in journalism.

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Excellence in Journalism is the national journalism conference of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Radio Television Digital News Association. Join us in September in Anaheim for training, networking, workshops and more!

Anna Pratt, chairE-mail@annaprattFreelance DirectoryBio (click to expand)
As a staff reporter-turned-freelance journalist, Anna Pratt, who lives in Minneapolis, Minn., has ventured into garbage houses, spent the night in a homeless shelter and witnessed a fistfight in a church basement, all for various stories. Her byline has appeared in the Star Tribune, The Line, the Southwest Journal, the Minnesota Independent and several suburban and community papers, web publications and broadcast media in the Twin Cities. Pratt is active with the Society of Professional Journalists' freelance community and she serves as the treasurer for the award-winning Minnesota Pro Chapter of SPJ.

Work has previously appeared: PRINT AND WEB EXPERIENCE:
I have had freelance articles published in magazines
including The American Planning Association, AAAS, Seventeen, Working Mother, United Airlines’ flight magazine, The Ann Arbor
News, and Milwaukee Magazine.

BROADCAST EXPERIENCE:
I am a science writer and producer, with experience in television, print, and online media. Since launching my freelance career, I've produced dozens of "Science Nation" stories for the National Science Foundation, and produced the TV series "This American Land," a conservation show that airs on scores of public television stations. I have produced sustainability stories for Bloomberg West TV. In September, 2014, I wrote and co-produced a long form broadcast story for Al Gore's "Climate Reality" 24 hour broadcast, focused on answers to our climate change crisis. I spent 16 years at CNN, covering science, technology, space, and environment stories. The beat included everything from the landing of robotic rovers on Mars, to field producing hurricane coverage, to explaining the latest computer virus.
Science and environment reporting is a different world from general assignment reporting. I find that
covering the science beat provides both challenge and satisfaction. It is invigorating and satisfying to spend time interviewing passionate scientists, who have spent decades studying quarks, or a certain species of squid, or seeking fossils in remote parts of Asia, or tracking the works of a computer virus writer. Sometimes, I feel like a
translator or channeler of important scientific information that regular people, viewers
and web surfers, can digest, and go away saying, ‘That's really interesting…’
Prior to joining CNN, I worked in local news in Cleveland at WUAB-TV, Tampa
at WTSP-TV, Milwaukee at WISN-TV, Columbus Ohio at WCMH-TV, and in Detroit at
WXYZ-TV. While in local news I received several awards, including recognition from
the Cleveland Press Club, the Ohio Associated Press, the Society of Professional
Journalists, UPI, the National Commission on Working Women, and the Milwaukee
Press Club, among others.
I received a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism from Northwestern
University in Evanston, Illinois, and a Master of Science degree in journalism from
Columbia University in New York.